Perioperative Changes of Heart Rate Variability Related to Anxiety and Depressiveness in Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: SDS; General Anesthesia; Heart Rate Variability; STAI; Anxiety

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02011074

2012-08-043

Details and patient eligibility

About

Preoperative anxiety can be detected via structured and standardised screening by the State - Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Self rating Depression Scale (SDS) questionnaire. The investigators evaluate the relation of perioperative anxiety and heart rate variability, also the impact of general anesthesia on the change of heart rate variability.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 30 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hepatocellular carcinoma patients

Exclusion criteria

• uncontrolled hypertension uncontrolled diabetes mellitus known autonomic nerve dysfunction